Keeping your leverage in check and having cash reserves will help ensure your ability to withstand any bumps in the road.

Check Alabama posts.  2nd lowest property taxes in the nation behind Hawaii.

If however they have verifiable income and work out of a legal brothel outside of Vegas and everything else checks out I’d rent to them.  

Check out BP Podcasts: https://www.biggerpockets.com/podcastWishing you the best!

So, when the judge asked if I had gone to at least check it out.   

@Kelvin Ng check some of the great things happening in Detroit!

For someone that's not as conservative, or a different view on the cycle, they might have a different opinion than me on all of this.2) Sponsor quality check: (takes about 45 minutes per deal)I believe that a great sponsor can take an average looking deal and make it great, and that in mediocre sponsor can take a fantastic looking deal and make it bad (especially if there is a severe recession).

Hey @Jackie Lambert,You should check out The Real Estate CPA Podcast.

I was talking to my mom and she told me that her boyfriend was asked by some friend's out of state to check on a house because they had to evict some people.

you have to call the inspector between 9 am - 10 am, or you can call the distract asking for the inspector.there are pretty much everything you have to check as a contractor for the property before calling the inspector. if you don't know, find someone who knows you will have an easier time.